We've been talking
about IPNGIPv6 for decades now,
and a while back I decided that I had no specific advantage from it, but the larger headers
made it less efficient. But will the lack of advantages persist? If not, it's interesting
to note that Aussie Broadband now
supports it, according to this thread.

It's been 8 years today since Sue Blake died, an occurrence that I didn't mention in my
diary at the time. But it brings back to many of us how long we have been in this
particular rut. The last hacker's barbecue, at which Sue was present, was on 17 April 2010, nearly 9 years ago. Somehow things
aren't happening as fast any more.

Nele Kömle and mother Magda Delva along today for a visit. I had promised something like a
Christmas dinner, though it was a lunch. First into town to buy
a Turducken that ALDI had on special starting today, and also
a baguette.

The baguette was fun. First I had to find a parking place, but all I could find was a
three-quarter place:

That's my car on the right. I took the photo after leaving the shop, and didn't notice
until I got in my car that the owner had entered via the passenger door and was in the
process of climbing over the presumably obstructive middle console of her car. If she had
waited, I could have let her in.

And the baguette itself: what's it called in Australian? Yvonne said “bread stick”, and when I got there I had ample opportunity to locate the things and
their label: “White breadstick”. OK, when it was finally my turn, I asked for a white
breadstick. Stick? Who cares about stick? I narrowly escaped the assistant not only
grabbing a loaf of concertina bread, but also putting it through their slicer. In the end,
I had to point him at them.

It wasn't even done then. On getting home, on the paper round the bread I found:

I think Christmas will finish early this year. Melanie Bahlo is coming on Friday, more good
food, so I think we'll count Christmas by the barbaric way of considering 25 December to be
the last day of Christmas instead of the first.

OK, quickly stick it in the oven and start according to instructions. What's that noise?
Fireworks! ALDI has thoughtfully coated the inside of the package with metal foil, which
sparked to the housing:

The roast that I bought at ALDI this morning
was a fresh Turducken, a turkey stuffed
with a duck stuffed with a chicken. Here an image from Wikipedia:

But I couldn't see any sign of duck in our roast, and the pieces were far too small to be
anything stuffed. The whole thing was relatively crumbly. In general, rather
disappointing. I had bought another one, deep frozen, which I was going to keep for a
suitable time. No, thanks. The best thing about ALDI is that I can bring it back, and
that's what I'll do. But it's another indication that we shouldn't rely on ALDI for
important meals.

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